Today In Responsible Gun Ownership

"Open Carry Tarrant County conducts multiple walks a week throughout Tarrant County, particularly on weekends when they can interact with large numbers of people and exercise their First Amendment right to share the United States Constitution," says the complaint below. "However, they have been told and reasonably fear citation and arrest because they have been told that they will be cited and arrested for these activities by police and city council members. This has caused a chilling effect on members of Open Carry's willingness to participate as they had in the past, as no one wants to be harassed and threatened with time in jail for doing nothing more than handing out the United States Constitution to those who have stated that they wish to receive it."

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I happen to have a pocket-sized edition of the Constitution. I did not receive it at gunpoint, however. And, to think, we once busted all kinds of rock -- Thanks, Rudy! -- to put ragged squeegee men in jail.

It is now a cult and the gun is now the fetish object. They'll be dancing around a flaming goat any day now.